This is a good
risk reward ratio trade.
Not exact matches
One of the tools we use in
trading is the «
risk -
reward ratio» — basically, how much
risk you're willing to take on for how much potential
reward.
Fast - moving stocks require low -
risk entry points, which allow us to minimize
risk and maximize the
reward to
risk ratio for each new swing
trade entry.
As always, patience to wait for proper
trade entry points with favorable
reward -
risk ratios is important, so we are not interested in chasing ETFs just for the sake of action.
The breakout above resistance on the weekly chart, combined with the pullback on the daily chart, provides for a positive
reward -
risk ratio for this ETF
trade setup.
Further, because this is a Pullback Buy setup, the
reward to
risk ratio of the
trade setup is favorable.
Opening new
trades at the current levels involves taking on too much
risk with minimal upside potential (negative
reward -
risk ratio).
This
trade sets up for a better than 3 - 1
reward to
risk ratio and has a well - defined downside.
Recall that we prefer
trades to have at least a 2 to 1
reward /
risk ratio.
However, if the
trade had been entered at the appropriate trigger price, the
reward /
risk ratio would have been 2 to 1.
The
trade offers us a
risk to
reward ratio of about 1:1.5.
We only
risked about 3.5 % on the
trade, so in terms of
reward to
risk we were at a healthy 4 to 1
ratio.
With a pre-entry price target of $ 77.40, we held on to IOC in hopes of achieving a 2 to 1
reward to
risk ratio on the
trade (potential gain based on the target being at least double the potential loss based on the preset stop price).
You must devise a
trading strategy that exhibits a minimum
risk - to -
reward ratio of 1 to 2 because you need to cater for inescapable losses as a basic component of your
trading plans.
But when the proper technical signals line up, the
reward to
risk ratios are good, and entry points are low -
risk, successful traders take action and aggressively
trade in the direction of the dominant market trend.
However, remember the best swing
trade setups with a positive
reward -
risk ratio will eventually come to you.
Therefore, we're not in a hurry to enter multiple new positions (either long or short) ahead of the holidays, but will still consider new stock and / or ETF
trade entries (possibly on the short side and / or inverse ETFs) with reduced share size if an ideal
trade setup with a firmly positive
reward -
risk ratio presents itself.
One of the most common mistakes novice options traders make is to only take into account the
risk /
reward ratio of an options
trade without considering the probabilities involved in the specific
trade.
TREND REVERSALS Bottoms & Tops Fishing for Profits
Trading bottoms and tops have the highest
reward:
risk ratios of all short - term
trades.
There are a plethora of
trading options available to investors in today's financial market, each offering their own representation of the
risk -
reward ratio.
Trading the inverse head and shoulders chart pattern will typically provide you with a good
reward to
risk ratio, especially if you use my aggressive strategy.
The reason I don't
trade the standard double bottom technique anymore is because the
reward to
risk ratio is not good enough.
Although the bearish price movement was short - lived, in this case, you could have still made a nice profit on this
trade due to the high
risk to
reward ratios that the harami patterns typically offer.
If I understood correctly, you should put most of your
trading money at work, in one or two
trades, in the right time, always using a stop - loss and with a good
risk /
reward ratio.
Your
reward to
risk ratio is a huge part of your
trading success.
To get around this going to the lower time frames have the advantage once you have an idea of the direction of the trend the period to
trade that with better entries and better
risk to
reward ratio.
The patterns and trends of the markets do not repeat exactly but they are similar enough to
trade with good
risk /
reward ratios.
For even more detail, adding elements such as the direction (long or short) of your
trades,
risk to
reward ratio, length of each
trade, photos of your setups and exits... can be very enlightening.
The
reward to
risk ratio that you target could vary depending on the
trading system that you're using.
If we aim for a
risk reward ratio of 1:2 on every
trade we take, we only need to be right about 35 to 40 % of the time to make a decent profit.
The entry could have been taken at the open of the next candlestick after the bearish confirmation candlestick closed, if you wanted to be more aggressive and improve your chances of a good
risk to
reward ratio; or you could have taken the
trade once price broke 1 pip below the low of the confirmation, as I've shown in the example above.
Your
reward to
risk ratio needs to be determined by what kind of setup and follow through your
trading system actually provides you.
This is the power of your average
risk reward ratio over a series of
trades coming into play; we will see this in action below...
As you can see from the graphic above, the higher your
reward to
risk ratio is, the fewer
trades you need to win to be profitable.
You need a high
trading probability to even out the low
risk vs
reward ratio.
In
trading, your
reward to
risk ratio is defined by what your profit target is and how much you are
risking per
trade.
The reason your
risk to
reward ratio is so important in
trading is because with a 1:1
ratio and a 50 % strike rate (win rate), you would break even.
In this article, I'm going to show you why your
reward to
risk ratio is one of the most important aspects of your
trading system.
The Infinite Prosperity and Top Dog
Trading systems both use a stepping stop loss method, so there is no set
risk /
reward ratio.
If I were
trading it without my filters today, I would consider a 3:1
reward to
risk ratio when entering on the open of the next candle (standard entry # 1) or when using the 50 % entry (without a confirmation candle).
Note: Depending on how you
trade price action patterns, if you don't use the qualifying filters that I mentioned above, you might want to experiment with a 3:1
reward to
risk ratio when
trading the shooting star.
If you find a cypher pattern with a poor
reward to
risk ratio, you may still be able to take that
trade if you can get an improvement on your entry point (see the image below).
Basically, that rule keeps us away from taking
trades that have poor
reward to
risk ratio.
When it does, you can use that to your advantage by entering the
trade with a better initial
reward to
risk ratio.
If after doing that, there is a decent
risk reward ratio possible on the
trade, it's a
trade that's probably worth taking.
As with most of the price action patterns that I
trade, I target a 2:1
reward to
risk ratio when
trading the shooting star candlestick pattern.
One disadvantage of the cypher pattern is that it has a tendency to provide
trading setups in which the
reward to
risk ratio leans more toward
risk than
reward (at least at the first take profit level).
The cypher pattern is an advanced harmonic price action pattern that, when
traded correctly, can achieve a truly outstanding strike - rate as well as a pretty good average
reward - to -
risk ratio.
Risk reward ratio is very crucial to your
trading success.
We need to be sure a decent
risk reward ratio is possible on a
trade; otherwise it's really not worth taking.